Flyers Examples Of Political ‘Misdirection’

March 20, 2026 Editor, The News-Gazette: Recently I received mailed flyers that are examples of the current use of misdirection and misinformation in political discourse. Both surprisingly urged the immediate use of mail-in ballots, despite some important politician trying to abolish mail-in voting, an apparent effort to have it both ways. One flyer had the shameful audacity to compare the present voting situation to the horrible era of Jim Crow. Another flyer decried “Gerrymandering!” as though unmindful of its use multiple times in the past as well as just a few months ago in Texas, again apparently trying to have it both ways.